Quotes about Generation

Our mandate is simple: raise up a generation that can openly display the raw power of God

My biggest concern for this generation is your inability to focus, especially in prayer.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible. ["The Power of Christian Young Men", Address at the Young Men's Christian Association's Celebration, Pittsburgh, October 24, 1914]

The preoccupations of seventeen-year-old girls--their looks, their clothes, their social life--do not change very much from generation to generation. But in every generation there seem to be a few who make other choices. Amy was one of the few.

Neither past nor future generations can serve God's purpose in this generation. Only we can.

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

You have a generation that is saying we are tapping out of religion in many ways. But what they are not saying is that we are tapping out of a serious search for meaning in life.

Art has tremendous power to shape culture and touch the human heart. Its artifacts embody the ideas and desires of the coming generation. This means that what is happening in the arts today is prophetic of what will happen in our culture tomorrow. It also means that when Christians abandon the artistic community, we lose a significant opportunity to coniniu- nicate Christ to our culture.

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.